François-Olivier Rousseau

Overview

François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer.

A young literary critic at Le Matin de Paris at the end of the 1970s, he became a novelist, met with success immediately and collected several literary prizes. He then left Paris for the Isle of Man where he settled in the capital, Douglas, a town of barely more than 20,000 inhabitants. He devotes himself only to the writing between two voyages.

French detesting France, a specialist in the period from Napoleon III to the First World War (which he considers to be "an accident that is incomprehensible to me, I try to understand what could have provoked this manifestation of the death instinct of the West and I like to dream what would have been this century without the war"), he particularly likes to depict with many details the lives of artists going through this era.

The Éditions du Seuil published a novelization of the film he cowrote, Children of the Century, devoted to the love affair between George Sand and Alfred de Musset.

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Known for

Writing
2023	Je suis né à 17 ans	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
2014	Belinda and Me	Writing	Writer	59 Average
2010	The Princess of Montpensier	Writing	Screenplay	60 Fair
2008	Marie-Octobre	Writing	Writer	58 Average
2005	Dark Night, October 17, 1961	Writing	Writer	59 Average
2004	Princesse Marie	Writing	Writer	58 Average
2003	Nathalie...	Writing	Writer	58 Average
2002	Lovers of the Nile	Writing	Dialogue	59 Average
2002	Lovers of the Nile	Writing	Writer	59 Average
2001	Change My Life	Writing	Writer	58 Average
2001	Absolutely Fabulous	Writing	Scenario Writer	58 Average
1999	The Children of the Century	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1997	Des gens si bien élevés	Writing	Writer	N/A N/A
	Le Coupable en moi	Writing	Screenplay	N/A N/A

About

François-Olivier Rousseau

Overview

Known for

Writing